| | Semiotics and ontology: John Deely and John Poinsot |
 | | Relativity in this sense, precisely as infecting the whole scheme of categories of cognition-independent existents, Poinsot termed relatio secundum dici `relation according to the way being must be expressed in discourse', or (synonymously) relatio transcendentalis `transcendental relation'. |
 | | The answer to this question is ontological relation, an answer which enables Poinsot to resolve a number of aporia that have plagued accounts of signifying from ancient times down to the present, and which turn out to be decisive for °epistemology and philosophical thought generally." |
 | | Guagliardo Vincent, "Being-as-First-Known in Poinsot: a-priori or aporia?," American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 68: 363-394 (1994). |
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